Soft Robotics

Are you interested in filling the gap between chemical engineering and soft robotics? Have a look to the novel perspectives and challenges of this sparkling multidisciplinary field

Luca Magagnin (Volume editor), Filippo Rossi (Volume editor)

9780128206461, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 7 July 2021

282 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.45 kg

Soft Robotics aims at providing state of art on research and potential approaches of soft robotics. It particularly challenges the traditional thinking of engineers, as the confluence of technologies, ranging from new materials, sensors, actuators and production techniques to new design tools, will make it possible to create new systems whose structures are almost completely made of soft materials, which bring about entirely new functions and behaviors, similar in many ways to natural systems. This is a huge research topic, “hot? and with a huge potential due to new possibilities offered by these systems to cope with problems that cannot be addressed by robots built from rigid bodies.

1. Introduction Luca Magagnin 2. MOF per sensing Alessandro Sacchetti 3. Polymer-based sensors Giuseppe Perale 4. Integrated microsystems for bridging multiscale elements Hiroaki Onoe 5. Smart sensors for VOCs and their application as end of service life indicator Filippo Pinelli 6. Additive manufacturing to produce biomaterials Alberto Rainer 7. Conclusions Filippo Rossi

Subject Areas: Chemical engineering [TDCB]